[Remote] Sr. Backend Engineer - Engine Team: API

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. The role involves leading the design and implementation of Deepgram’s products, focusing on creating secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing and optimizing system performance.

Responsibilities

• Improve Deepgram’s core inference services including areas in networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, and latency and memory optimization
• Develop processes for measuring, building, and optimizing services to maximize system performance
• Debug complex system issues that include networking, scheduling, and high performance computing interactions
• Rapidly customize backend services to support our customer needs
• Partner with Product to design and implement new services, features, and/or products end to end

Skills

• 3+ years of experience in an industry role
• Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++), with competence in Python
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal
• A high level of experience and understanding of version control; preferably git
• Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems
• Experience with modern machine learning, such as experience with a framework like Torch or implementation knowledge of architectures like CNNs, RNNS, and transformers
• Experience with audio processing

Benefits

• Offers Equity
• Offers Bonus
• 10% Annual Bonus
• Remote

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